Death Is A Wake-Up Call To Life

A few days ago I spent some time at the wake of an Aunt, she was my mother’s cousin. She recently succumbed to cancer, a fight that sees more loser’s than winners. As I sat there, recalling memories of her from my life, and going as far back as childhood, a chill crept through me as I thought in resigned certainty, “there is nothing as inevitable and inescapable in life, as death”. And then I realized, to be primarily focused on our eventual end would be an even greater tragedy; simply reflecting on man’s inarguable fate, death; causes us to overlook the other single most important thing we possess and ought to be thankful for, which is life! Death indeed is a reminder that all.. come to an end; but instead of living in the fear of what we know will one day come, I guess we should look at the other side of things, and celebrate life as often and as gratefully as we can, in our own individual ways.

Life Again

I had just posted a notice about my being unable to access my personal blog site and so, I am unable to manage or retrieve all the things I have posted in the last two years of blogging. Disappointing, but such is life I guess... it does hit you with a good number of disappointments. I have been disappointed in a few things, in a few people, in a few other things... ok maybe "a few" mentioned in a string of phrases cannot qualify for "a few"; alright I guess there are quite a number of things I am disappointed in. And when there is no one to blame, you can put the blame on life... maybe this is how it is supposed to be.